The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-11-10
THE DEMONS.
The Anarchists Moving Heaven
and Earth for Communication
of the Doomed Seven.
Prominent People IN Chicago
Signing the Petitions-The
Police Dlsmayed.

CHICAGO NoyemberL5.- Three of the condemned
Ansrchistsjhsve signed petition to the governor
asking executive clemency. Four OF them etlll re,
fuse to do so. The friends of these four pleaded
with them all day yesterday, but the names oil
Engel, Lingg, Fischer and Parsons were not Sc
cured when the final meeting for the day broke up
at o'clock. 1t is now definitely understood the
exerons on the part of outside friends to save the
condemned mems lives are being carried out with
a view of complying with the expressed wishes
of Governor 0glesby To this end individual appeals
are being actively circulated containing only the
names Of Fielden and Schwab.
ANARCHIST THREATS.
NEW YORK, November Sat crowded meeting
of the progressive labor party in the Germania
assembly rooms, s. E. Selchwitch, editor of the
Leader, made speech in which he said:
81 am expected to make campaign speech, bat
l can't bring myself to speak calmly. This is
Friday, November 4, and on Friday, November IL,
the greatest crime and most atrocious murder
ever perpetrated s fixed to take place in Chicago.
is committed, the end will soon follow.
If those heroes are hanged the days
of all those concerned IN tn the 5o, 0Sfra aG,
be far off when they will have to answer TOT the
blood they have ehed by every spark OF hte IN
their worthless bodies" cloud cheers, and cries
seven mems lives will not harm our caasa, Let
them kill even 1900, and on their graves U,OOOOOC
others will arise. 81 tell you, If these men are
hanged next Friday, something a thousand times
worse than our late civil war will follow. We will
not see it done without acting"
MISS NINA VAN zANDT.
CHICAGO, November 5-Lste last night Miss
Nina Van Zandt and her mother called on Captain
Setback and the officers at the Chicago avenue
station. Miss Van Zandt presented petition ad-
dressed to Governor Oglesby, asking for commu-
tation Of the sentence of the anarchists and re-
quested the captain to sign 1t. She pleaded with
police officer declined to attach his signature. The
girl asked and obtained permission to solicit the
officers in the station for their names, but failed to
secure single one Before leaving, she distributed
q number of Trumbells pamphlets, "Was 1t Fair
Trial." and left lot more of them on the ser
geant's desk, by whom, at Schaack's command,
they were promptly consigned to the waste basket
as soon as she had left the building
WHEN CLEMENCY WILL BE ASKED.
CHICAGO, November s. The following telegram
showing the exact time when clemency will be
formally asked OF the governor was sent forward
last night
"To James E. Quinn, John Swinton Robert G.
Ingersoll and others at New York-The formal ap'
plication to the governor for cemenCy for the an
archists will be made Wednesday, November 9. A
Chicago delegation leaves here Tuesday night
All delegations should be in Springfield not later
than Wednesday morning
(Signed) GEO. A. SCHILLING'
AMNESTY MEETINGS.
CHICAGO, November 5.-President Oliver, Of the
Amnesty association, said this morning:
"The mass meeting we desire to hold on Satur'
some cause or other we have heen boycotted by all
hall owners, even though weoffered unusual rental
The association will make an effort to secure
permission to erect amnesty stands on the streets
in charge of members of the association"
SOME OF THE PETITIONERS.
CHICAGO, November 5.---Day after Gay long Lists
of citizens who hitherto have been emphatic in
their demand for the infection of the extreme pen
atty of the law on the condemned anarchists ap
pear attached to petitions for Communication
lano rt0hta fTfrra fhai,
reasons for signing their petitions.
W. 9. Gondy said:
There is doubt that they are guilty of murder
but IL must be remembered that this is not a case
of ordinary physical assassination. The question
is whether they should be punished to the full eX
tent of the law. Judge Gary might have passed
upon 1t in denying new trial, but did not. Tht
there was no legal error in the record of that trial
and the supreme court of the United
States declared that there was NJ
review the trial. They had often before talket
more violently than they. did at the Haymarke
reeeting. The mayor of the city, its highes
officer was appealed to, to suppress their talk snt
stop their paper, but he refused. This gave then
an extended license for talk on the night of Thu
murder. 1t is aquestion of public policy, and
am certain that the execution of these men will
not suppress anarchistic IDEAS or a socialisti'
tendency among the masses. My idea ts, that they
should be sent to Joliet for life, put into stripes
and treated simply as common felons; Those
Ul6u are uOHebb III Iuell uoIldlhIiou uua1 1uol
would rather be hung than sent to prison for life
The point is that that they will be robbed of al
romance, sentimentaity and the exaltation Of
martyrdom.
Ex- enator Lyman Trumbull said:
O"I signed the petition because l was not al
together satisfied with the manner in which the
trial OF the anarchists conducted 1t took place
at the time of great public excitement, when it was
about impossible that they should have fair ant
impartial trial"
Judge Moran said:
SIT Is not customary in this country to hang
fellow for talking. The sentiment is to let hin
talk; the people will be all right anyhow. Besides
will 1t pay to allow these men to become martyrs
Among the laboring and middle classes, will it no
give rise to the belief unfounded though it be- tina
q man of wealth can cay what he pleases, but, If
laborer or labors mouth-piece talke, he will b.
hanged. Many acts, as we'll as statements, arr
misconstrued and developed into far reaching con
sequences"
The reasons given by these gentlemen seem t
voice the sentiments of the petitioners.
THE PITTsBURG MYSTERY.
PTTsBURG, Pa November 5.-Thorough inves
tigation by the Morning Post leaves very LITTLE
room for doubt that Owens was an anarchist, ant
that he was in Chicago the night of the Haymarke
massacre. Chas. Ludkin, contractor and builder
and a reputable citizen of Homestead, told the Dis
patch reporter last night he was well acquainted
with young man in Chicago. He was with Owent
few days before the riot, and met him once on tht
street after that fearful scene. Owens was an
enthusiastic anarchist, and attended all their meet
ings. Captain Mullett, a man of considerabl,
property at Homestead, and regarded as man OF